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Italian media reported that a Swiss teenager is under investigation for defacing the Colosseum.
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The 17-year-old was filmed carving the letter “N” into the ancient structure by a local tour guide.
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Guide David Battaglino told local media that her parents told her, “She’s just a little girl.”
Less than a month later, a tourist infuriates the defacement of the Colosseum by carving his and his girlfriend’s initials into the old building, and a teenage visitor is investigated for a similar act of vandalism.
The young Swiss tourist found herself in the midst of an Italian police investigation after she was photographed carving the letter “N” into a wall on a nearly 2,000-year-old Roman structure, according to The Guardian. Swiss info. The news was first reported by Italian media ADN Chronos.
The tourist has not been identified by name, but a clip of the incident has been posted on Twitter before Italian news agency ANSA.
The video appeared to show a blond, inconspicuous teenager using an object to carve the letter “N” into the brick-faced concrete of the historic building before walking away when people started cheering.
Twitter translation for Ansa’s tweet It read: “New libel in the Colosseum, a Swiss tourist who has her initials carved: she faces the risk of imprisonment and a maximum fine. Her photographs serve as evidence and she is denounced.”
David Battaglino, a local tour guide who filmed the young man performing, told Italian newspaper La République that he was touring the Colosseum when someone turned their attention to the teenager.
He told the outlet that he continues to talk to his tour group while simultaneously filming the teen defacing the Colosseum with his phone.
After a few seconds, my group clapped for me. And I said to him in English: Do you want to clap?
Battaglino told the teen’s parents what she had done was illegal, and she reported it to a supervisor and recalled her parents telling her, “She’s just a little girl, she didn’t do anything wrong,” according to La Repubblica.
The newspaper reported that the girl and her parents were then taken to the police headquarters in Piazza Venezia in Rome. Polizia di Stato and Italy’s Culture Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Battaglino said it was the first time he had filmed an act of vandalism at the Colosseum, but added that he had witnessed similar acts before and “spitting on them” before during an earlier incident involving a boy.
The outcome of this latest investigation remains unclear, but it bears similarities to the viral story of the 27-year-old British fitness guru who was seen using a corkscrew to burn ‘Evan + Halle 23’ in the novel nearly 2,000 years ago. structure in the video. Originally Posted on YouTube.
In time I forgot. He said the British tourist could face fines of up to $16,000 and five years in prison.
He later wrote a letter of apology to the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, and to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, shared in Rome’s Il Messaggero on 5 July, stating in the letter that he was not aware of the age of the ancient monument nor of “the gravity of the act committed”.
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